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Show (Zburcft Utnoersal Little Things That Count. ul'tfii in our busy life Vt- sjK-uk a bitter word, v care not who the listeners are, :i re not where 'tis heard. -c , i . not know within our heart To what it may amount, A n'l truly it is only one little things that count. AVn "ft-n wound the trusting heart i;v i.eing insincere, o do not think that which we do Mnv cause a loney tear. Ve" gi'"' it but a passing thought .Ami bother not about Th- little- things that ripe and cause If,, trusting heart to doubt. often through life's busy time We l' t our anger rise, ri'j r;ncr mind the pleading looks Ti.t come from soulful eyes. v . rush and bruise in passions hour r -i scorn the falling tear, ',;! . Things, oh. IJttlft Things, ii 1 . 1 sorrow wrought you here. We often wrong within ourself The ones who love us true, IvM.-.use they tell us of a fault, W all impatient, too. .Ami not drown the angry words VI :;,t to our lips may mount, i , ; t w;itch nnd wait, 'tis only one i e :;ttle thines that count. Tli' -y count, oh. yes. but listen how: cmint, but not for gain. T! y count to sadden trusting hearts, i !;. v count for naught but pain. T!i y c ount as clouds in some one's sky, .Anil i;;rketi some one's day, Th' eruel little words and deeds v ;n't undo, unsay. Th- ;i ever speak the kindly word l :.--: -m1 of one of pride, "I'v. i I banish sorrow from a soul Ami anger turn aside. Tli- loving word and deed and look Aie borne on angel wings, ,',.l angel voices echo true (: kind in Little Things." Katherine Murray. Spanish Ambassador Shows Appreciation Appre-ciation of the Pope. i in.. (lf the interesting papal audi-.im's audi-.im's "f the last month of 1M9 was ih;i! granted to His Excellence Perez 'a la!l'To, who until a few days previously pre-viously had been Spanish ambassador i.i the Quirinal, and has now become M inister of foreign affairs under the new Liberal government. I had King desired," he said immediately im-mediately after his audience, "to present pre-sent my homage to His Holiness, and immediately my diplomatic mission to the Quirinal ended I begeed for an audience in my capacity as Spanish minster f foreign affairs. Puis X had made a deep impression on me as : real ruler with a strong, firm will of his own. There are some, even in my own country .who believe that His Holiness j.s isolated and that the real rulers are those who surround him. The truth is that it is Plus X in his own person who governs. You have only to come into contact with him to realize in him a clear intelligence : nd a firm character, united with an-Llir an-Llir goodness. Yes. it is the goodness good-ness of the Pope which has most struck me. His words, his voice, his whole bearing, are wonderfully at-ractivc. at-ractivc. In one way I was very agreeably agree-ably disappointed in him. I expected i'i see him. in view 'of his age and of the Immense burden that has 'ii;her "li him for many years, cast down and worn out. Instead I saw at once that the Holy Father enjoys xceilent health and that he is of a -'Uml and robust constitution. After the fall of Maure's cabinet, with which the Ferrer agitation had at least something to do. it was assumed as-sumed that the new Liberal ministry would be inclined to truckle to the anti-clericals and revolutionaries, who have caused so much trouble in Spain recently. That, evidinetly, is not the of Senor Caballero. "The cabinet cabi-net to which I belong," he has de-i de-i laied to the Home correspondent of the Momento.' "is a Liberal one but liberalism does not imply anti-clericalism, if by this; word you mean a policy of persecution against the Church. 'We will have nothing to do with persecution. persecu-tion. The Spanish ministry will study the various problems of ecclesiastical poli'-v. co-ordinating them with the reasons on account of which it has b i n put into power, but whatever it does will lie done in perfect harmony v itli the Holy See. with which the ivvornment will always maintain the best relations. YVe shall take good a. re not to inter into the field of dogma, dog-ma, in which the church is the exclusive exclu-sive judce: but we shall have to face '.a n'ous reforms in such a way as to make the religious policy of Spain bet-t'-r adapted to the present requirements require-ments of the nation. Just because we are Liberals, we wish for liberty for ail. and especially as regards the reckons re-ckons sentiment and conscience. Be-si Be-si i' S. we must bear in mind that M'ain is profoundly Catholic, and that m would be absurd to adopt a pol!c opposition to the religious belief of ; i whole nation." ; The correspondent reminded bini that there had been talk of the sup- I ! ion f the religious orders and i "' "'her measures openly anti-clerical. Von will understand." he replied. 'l at i cannot enter into details, but i:t certain that if reforms are to be ' a ie ti, ey will not be inspired by ha-'"'' ha-'"'' of the church and of Catholics. Spanish government will endeav-' endeav-' to pin into execution only those 1 f mis which can be accepted by the H See and of which the Vatican :; '" recognize the necessity and the j J ti ' -arid remember I am speaking ,s '' r. fornis, and not of suppressions, 1 other measures which would be pposition with the sincerely lih-"' lih-"' -pirit of the ministry and with ' '"itholic sentiments of the Span- : people." it is to be believeed that ' : a.nister gave all these and other i'anoos to the Holy Father. Cordiality As An Asset. cultivation of a helpful spirit idiulity. of larg'-mindedness. a generous way of looking at is of in stimable advantage, ": !! to tin- growth of character, t also ,M getting on iii the world. i'" o li of one's success depends on personal equation, so much upon possession of attractive qualities, ' ' 'U Hi" personality, that the im-1 im-1 tance 0f -hose things cannot be '"Estimated. There is nothing else, i instance, which creates a good :i impression so quickly, and calls f ' such a feeling of good will, as a "ok. cordial manner a' manner ' 1 is perfectly transparent, that con-Is con-Is no guile, covers no malice; while tii re is nothing else that will freeze person so quickly as an icy, formal, I S ;"P ' ious manner. Success Magazine. J Criticizing Priests. 'I'!"' habit of criticizing our priests "hat a harmful and wretched habit ,i!'' is. how disedifying to the hearer, h w far-reaching sometimes in its ''ii effects. Do the people who thus fit ieiz" ..ur Lord's anointed ever Hunk to pray for priests in their :''luo!is and awful office of tremendous tremen-dous responsibility? Oh. in any case, 'iiether we are moved to praise or hlaiue let us pray most, and first and kst, lur U wiir spiritual lathers ir I the Church, and let us remember that if an angel from heaven were to come down visibly to minister to ua, we might think we saw something to criticize in him, because "we should not always understand." This beautiful prayer for priests, frequently said, should do our own souls good as well: "O Lord. Eternal Priest, keep Thy priests within the shelter of Thy Sacred Sa-cred Heart, where none may touch them. "Keep unstaineed their anointed hands, which daily touch Thy Sacred Body. "Keep unsullied their lips, daily pur-pled pur-pled with Thy Precious Blood. "Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime marks of the priesthood. "Let Thy holy joys surround tnem, and shield them from the world's contagion. "Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation con-solation here, and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown." Sacred Heart Review. Candlemas. We again celebrate the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In common speech we call it Candlemass. because on this dav the candles prescribed for divine service are blessed. The candles must be made of beeswax. This is so imperative that the Church has preferred to have even her most sacred rites performed without with-out lights rather than have those used that are not made of this material. The very word "candle" (Latin candela) in the language of the Church always signified sig-nified a candle made of beeswax. Tallow, Tal-low, sperm, parafflne, patent wax. or any other than beeswax candles, cannot can-not be blessed, and are forbidden to be used for divine service. It is an ancient and praiseworthy custom for Catholics to procure at least one wax candle for this day, and. after it has hfn hiossen1 tr taii it home to use it at the bed of the dying, or during a storm, or for any other proper end, as the Church wishes. wish-es. Good Catholics, we know, are not satisfied with this alone; they offer of-fer one or more candles for the service ser-vice of the altar; thus following the example of Mary, who, though not subject to the law. offered a sacrifice in the temple. In a book entitled "The Sacramen-tals Sacramen-tals of the Holy Catholic Church" we find the following beautiful remarks in regard to this custom: "The Church calls us to the temple for the purification, that our eyes, too, may see this glorious light, recognizing recogniz-ing in its symbol the blessed candle, that our hands, too. may hold the Infant In-fant Savior in beholdinng the waven taper which represents Him." How full of meaning are all the rites of our religion! Xot by chance has the Church chosen the wax candle as a type of her Lord and Master. St. Anselm of Canterbury tells us the reasons: "The wax product of the virginal bee represents rep-resents Christ's most spotless body; the wick enclosed in the wax, and forming one with it, images His human hu-man soul, whilst the ruddy flame, crowning and completing the union of wax and wick, typifies the divine nature, na-ture, subsisting inconfusedly with the human nature in one divine person." Let us then make, on receiving our blessed candle, an act of faith in Christ, the light of the world, enlightening enlight-ening every man coming into the world. Let us remember we are the children of light, that is such we ought to shed around us the light of good example. Oh, dear readers! if our lives were as they should be we would be like so many torches placed upon the pathway of truth to show our poor, erring countrymen the way to the glorious city of God, the Holy Roman Apostolic Church. We should make on this festival an offering of candles for the service of the altar. Oh! what a consoling thought for us. when we are at our daily work, that perhaps our candles are that moment burning before the blessed sacrament, thaking the place of our hearts, silently, purely burning in their stead before the sacred heart ot Jesus. Explanation. In explaining the dictum. "Outside the Church there is no salvation," it is possible to depart so far from the rigorism rig-orism of the apparent meaning as to minimize the genuine doctrine of which the dictum is the expression. Bishop John Vaughan's statement of the case is graphic enough to merit memorizing: "Though we assert without with-out any doubt that Protestants may be saved, and although we are quite ready to allow even that a great many, owing to their excusable inability to recognize the truth, actually are saved, yet there is one thing of which we are still more certain; and it is that, though a Protestant may be saved, it will not be by means of his Protestantism, Protest-antism, but in spite of it in fact, in the very teeth of it. Protestantism, as such, has no saving power. Though it may p?rhaps seem a strange thing to say, it is nevertheless undoubtedly true that a Protesant who is saved, is saved, not in so far as he is a protest-ant, protest-ant, but simply in so far as he is a Catholic." Press Ma.kes the Difference. Bishop Hoban of Scranton, Pa., makes this striking comparison, which certainly points a moral: "Compare Germany with France and what do we find? You will find the Catholic German with four or more Catholic papers coming to his home. The German Catholic feels that it is his bounden duty to support his Catholic papers and in no other country in the world are Catholics better organized than they are in Germany. There we find one hundred of the leading Catholics Cath-olics occupying seats in the senate and they are guarding Catholic interests. They form a wedge. At their front in stormier days sat the great Y lndhorst. He sat within twenty feet of the speaker. speak-er. A few feet from him sat Bismarck, the man of iron, who had crushed France. But Bismorck found Windhorst Wind-horst worthy of his steel. Windhorst led one hundred men in the Reichstag, but back of this phalanx, behind this hundred men. were a million German Catholics, educated in and kept in touch with Catholic matters by a Catholic Cath-olic press, and these educated Germans, with Windhorst at their head, brought Bismarck and the present emperor of Germany to their knees. "In France what do we find? The poor Frenchmen cannot afford a Catholic Cath-olic paper, the rich Frenchmen will not bother his head w ith them. If French Catholics would read French Catholic papers they would be imbued with Catholic truths and would not be swayed by wish-washy politicians. Poor France! Once the proud boast of its truly Catholic people was that her leading men were children of God, heirs of the angels. They gave us the greatest great-est example of heroism for the faith. But all these efforts now seem wasted. What do we find now? A combination of renegade Jews and renegade Free Masons, banded together to rob the people peo-ple and the children of France ofthelr faith, their birthright and to substitute a godless religion. God help poor Fiance. llr bishops, her priests, her sisters, now suffer because of the apathy, the neglect of those who should be their ardent supporters, against any form of persecution, governmental or otherwise. German Catholics support German Catholic papers, French Catholics Cath-olics do not support a Catholic pres?, hence a French Catholic press does not exist. 'This lesson should not be lost by Catholics in the United States, and I entreat you to support the Catholic press. The cost to you will be found to be but trifling. The advantages that will accrue to you will be found to be very great." Jews Returning to Palestine. Letters from Jerusalem say that the proclamation of the constitution in Turkey has throwrn open the doors of Palestine to the incoming of Jews from all parts of the world. In Jerusalem alone four-fifths of the population of 100.000 now belong to the Jewish faith, while at Jaffa. Tiberias, Sated and Haifa Hai-fa Jews are reckoned by tens of thousands. thou-sands. Almost the whole extensive plain of Esdraelon has been bought up by them. Their prosperous colonies spread from Dan to Beersheba, and even further south to the outskirts of Egypt. Thousands Thou-sands are escaping from Persia to find shelter and protection in the Holy Land, while every ship from Odessa carries hundreds of them. The valley of the Jordan, once the property of the ex-Sultan Azdul Ha-mid, Ha-mid, is being eagerly sought after by Jewish capitalists and syndicates of Zionists, whose agents, distributed all over the land, are buying up rich properties prop-erties of Mohammedan offenders whose incomes since the revolution are- considerably con-siderably lessened. The Holy City is essentially a Jewish town. Banking, as well as trade and commerce, is monopolized by Jews. The government has found it necessary to organize a company of Jewish gendarmes. gen-darmes. Hundreds of thousands of pounds are sent semi-annually from Europe and America to enable the colonists col-onists to build homes. Over 10 Jewish schools already exist in Jerusalem alone, and synagogues are going up everywhere. Sermons By Boys. The boy who delivers the sermon without words is one who preaching does the most good. For instance: The boy who gets up early in the morning, kneels at his bedside and says his prayers, and resolves not to commit any sin during the day, gives an exam-which exam-which talks more eloquently to boys than any orator could. A youngster going along the street meets with a poor old lady or gentleman, gentle-man, whose eyes are dim from the watchfulness and care of years, stops, takes hold of the withered hand and leads its owner over the crosswalks of the busy thoroughfare, beckoning the teamsters and coachmen to have a care for the aged, and in the very act swells the hearts of the onlookers with charity for the old and infirm such as no wrords could do. The boy who raises his hat. when passing a Catholic church, wherein is present our Savior in the Blessed Sacrament, tells his companions to be respectful to their Master. The lad who seeks the companionship companion-ship of a good boy will have the advantage ad-vantage of the practical sermon that will aid him to be good, and besides it is easier to be good, when the associations asso-ciations are good. "Catholic Church Is Christianity." Take Out of the world the Catholic and Roman Church, and the void cannot can-not be filled up. The rush of all schisms, heresies, unbeliefs would not fill the void. It would bring back chaos where orders reigned before and uncertainty bred of mutial contradiction. contradic-tion. There would be no lineal descent of truth from the apostles, no steadrast light of the day of Pentecost, no perpetual per-petual witness of the Incarnation. How, then, could we know that Jesus Christ ever came into the world? Put back the Catholic and Roman Church into the Christian world, and' at once the Church of all nations is its own history. Its living tradition Is unbroken. un-broken. It has its own annals, and knows their significance. It has its own documents, and it knows their meaning. It has its own immemorial usages, customs, cus-toms, interpretations, and it knows their origin and import. It has no need of scientific historians or of pretentious critics to tell it what was the divine deposit de-posit commltteed to its custody. "What man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth but the Spirit of God." Cardinal Car-dinal Manning. |